Celebrating A Life
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Rene Wright
Posted: 22 September 2010 by bms_editor
MISS IRENE (RENE) VICTORIA WRIGHT (1923 – 2009) INDIA (1947 – 1973) Rene was born in Blackheath but, when she was six, moved with her parents and elder sister Evelyn, to Green Street Green, Kent, beginning an association with the local...
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Olive Woodham
Posted: 22 September 2010 by bms_editor
MISS OLIVE RUTH WOODHAM (1926 – 2008) UK STAFF and CONGO (1969 – 1972) Olive Ruth Woodham died on 21 December 2008. Olive had been unwell for several years and was living in a residential home. Olive worked on the UK home staff for a few...
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William Upchurch
Posted: 22 September 2010 by bms_editor
REV WILLIAM SAMUEL UPCHURCH (1907 – 2008) CHINA (1935 – 1952) Motor-cycle scrambler, chemist, musician, shopkeeper, missionary, pacifist, soldier, minister and centenarian, in China William Upchurch saw and recorded at first hand the Xi'...
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Betty Tucker
Posted: 22 September 2010 by bms_editor
MRS BETTY TUCKER (nee GARSIDE) (1921 – 2009) MIZORAM (1944 – 1962) Mrs Betty Tucker died on 23 July 2009. Betty and her husband Ron served in Lushai, Mizoram, from 1944 to 1962. Betty had suffered from poor health for many years and died...
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Margaret Swift
Posted: 22 September 2010 by bms_editor
MRS MARGARET SWIFT (nee FASHAM) (1909 – 2009) CONGO (1936 – 1958) Mrs Margaret Swift (nee Fasham) died on Saturday 19 September 2009. Margaret served in Congo from 1936 – 1958, working as a teacher in Yakusu and Yalemba. A...
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Edna Staple
Posted: 22 September 2010 by bms_editor
MISS EDNA MARY STAPLE (1921 – 2010) ANGOLA (1950 – 1961) and CONGO (1961 – 1980 and 1988 – 1989) Edna was born in Amersham on 3 April 1921. When she left school she worked for a time, during the early months of the war, as a...
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Gladys Smith
Posted: 22 September 2010 by bms_editor
REV GLADYS MAY SMITH (nee SEYMOUR) (1919 – 2009) CHINA (1948 – 1951) and INDIA (1952 – 1962) Rev Gladys May Smith (nee Seymour) died on Tuesday 20 October 2009. Gladys served with BMS as a teacher in China from 1948 to 1951...
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Rodger Shields
Posted: 22 September 2010 by bms_editor
DR RODGER PARK SHIELDS (1921 – 2008) ANGOLA (1949 – 1963) and CONGO (1963 – 1968) Rodger Park Shields died on Wednesday 29 October 2008. Rodger and his wife Roma served in Angola from 1949 to 1963 and Congo from 1963 to 1968...
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Patsy Russell
Posted: 22 September 2010 by bms_editor
MISS FLORENCE PATRICIA MACLEAN (PATSY) RUSSELL (1916 – 2008) CONGO (1945 – 1957) and UK STAFF (1964 – 1974) Florence Patricia Maclean (Patsy) Russell died on 5 October 2008. Patsy worked with BMS in Ntondo, Congo from 1945 to 1957...
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David & Helena Payne
Posted: 22 September 2010 by bms_editor
MR DAVID PAYNE (1960 – 2008) MRS EILA HELENA PAYNE (nee VESTERINEN) (1962 – 2009) NEPAL (1983 – 1986, 1991 – 1998) In September 2008 we heard the sad news that David Payne had died in August, after a long battle with cancer....